Sheffield Hallam University is saving up to £20,000 a year and eliminating "tens of hours of downtime every month" with an improved single sign-on system and application delivery controller.

Qualcomm has signed a mobile device security deal with Kaspersky Lab to load its security software onto Android devices powered by Snapdragon processors.

Royal Holloway, University of London has received a £3.8 million grant to host a new centre for doctoral training (CDT) in cyber security.

A fifth of CIOs (20 per cent) admit to not masking or protecting their customer data before providing it to outsourcers for mainframe application testing purposes.

Samsung has had its security enhanced smartphones and tablets approved for use by the US military.

Enfield Council is controlling the distribution of sensitive data by email in line with the HM Government Security Policy Framework.

Cloud content sharing firm Box has hired three industry veterans to help bolster its operations.

As Samsung seeks to challenge the dominance of the BlackBerry Enterprise Server platform in the business market, it has now struck a mobile device management technology deal with Absolute Software.

The Audit Commission's National Fraud Initiative (NFI) is said to have pinpointed £1 billion potentially lost to fraud, overpayments or errors across council and government departments.

Large companies expect more protection from their existing security tools than they are capable of, shows research, which also found that almost three quarters (72 percent) of European enterprises have suffered a targeted attack on their networks.

A quarter of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks that occur in 2013 will be application-based, according to analyst Gartner, with attackers sending out targeted commands to applications to tax the central processing unit (CPU) and memory - making the application unavailable.

Prime minister David Cameron is using his trade trip to India to sign a cyber security deal with the country, over fears that UK customer and company data off-shored to Indian companies could be vulnerable to hackers.

The internet economy could face turbulence in the future, according to analysts Ovum, due to digital consumers’ reluctance to be tracked online.

Software developed by the FBI and Ernst & Young has revealed the most common words used in email conversations among employees engaged in corporate fraud.

Despite the hype around mobile business, UK firms are failing to generate significant sales, through poorly designed mobile websites and barely any support for mobile wallets, according to two separate in-depth studies.